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IBM Data and AI Ideas Portal for Customers


This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data & AI organization. To view all of your ideas submitted to IBM, create and manage groups of Ideas, or create an idea explicitly set to be either visible by all (public) or visible only to you and IBM (private), use the IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com).


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Classic CDC to Support column-level CodePage selection

I work at a financial institution where we process mainframe information in EBCDIC CodePage 037, 838, 930 and 937.Currently we plan to work around a CodePage limitation by generating four separate subscriptions; one for each EBCDIC CodePage we wan...
over 7 years ago in Replication: IMS / VSAM 1 Not under consideration

IIDR Mapping Tables to Teradata target when columns are greater than 30 characters

The error message 'Message3037' Exception Text 'null'. is received when attempting to add a table to a subscription when the target table has a column name with the length greater than 30 characters.
over 7 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Not under consideration

Enhance IBM delivered functions SOAPHTTPNC and SOAPHTTPNV so third parameter goes beyond 1M.

Currently, the third parameter for IBM delivered functions SOAPHTTPNC and SOAPHTTPNV is limited to 1M. This is rather restrictive. We would like to use this function with an input of at least 2M (at least for now). I opened a PMR and they describe...
almost 11 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

improve PMC view of MDS plan

improve the PMC view of MDS plans. The view of SBS plans gives a big picture view, including expandable elements to drill down, as well as showing sharing and ownership and time windows all in the same view. MDS plans should also be viewable in th...
over 3 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3 0 Planned for future release

MT604 and MT605 field 23 (DELIVERY/ TRANSFER)

For field 23, Either create a drop-down that accepts only TRANSFER and DELIVERY or it allows only TRANSFER and DELIVERY keywords. Current FTM allows users to enter anything within 16 character, when wrong code is entered, no error prompt to stop t...
over 3 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Swift 0 Not under consideration

Oracle account can be dynamic for creating CDC instance and CDC datastore

Problem statement/pain points: Now it needs a persistent static password for the oracle account when create CDC instance and CDC datestore and the password can change, otherwise the CDC instance and CDC datastore will not work if the password cha...
over 3 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 4 Not under consideration

Improve storage limitation for -DIS PROCEDURE(*.*) SCOPE(GROUP) command

When we execute DISPLAY PROCEDURE (*.*) SCOPE GROUP in a datasharing system with large number and intensive use of stored procedures we get either of the following messages: DSNX978I -DBAI DISPLAY TERMINATED DUE TO INSUFFICIENT MESSAGE SPACE DSNX9...
almost 11 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Run pytest in Conductor

We would like to use pytest framework to run test cases that contains python notebooks and essentially some of the notebooks use spark and h2o. We would like to understand if you are aware how to make this work using conductor.
over 3 years ago in Spectrum Conductor / Version 2.4 0 Future consideration

The Database export assistant should accecpt the length for all oracle data formats which allow a length.

We have a lot of Oracle-Tables with columns in raw format. It should be possible to write back such informations with the database export assistent. But it isn't, because he doesn't accept a lengt for the raw format, which is required from oracle....
over 3 years ago in SPSS Statistics 0 Not under consideration

Built-in functionality to create process dump

Sometime IBM support need dumps from Symphony processes for troubleshot. It could be usefull to have CLI, API and WEBGUI access to trigger a process dump. Command line example egosh createDump SD /tmp (which should create a dump of SD process and ...
over 7 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.1 1 Not under consideration